Posted by Satya on 03/03/07 06:02

On Mar 1, 2:40 pm, Lurius <romu.k...@elisanet.fi> wrote:
> lepage.di...@gmail.com formulated on keskiviikko :
>
>
>
> > Hello
>
> > I am a newbie to PHP. Please bear with me. I need to validate the
> > following fields using php.
>
> > 1. email (needs to be just one e-mail address, and take out stuff like
> > bcc or anything that would be used for e-mail injection vulnerability)
> > 2. Phone number (has to be in the format 555-5555)
> > 3. Phone number area code (has to be limited to 3 characters)
> > 4. Address has to be stripped of all illegal characters like slashes,
> > special characters etc
>
> > Another thing is I don't want people to be able to leave any of the
> > fields blank.
>
> > Where does the validation code go?
>
> > After this statement?
>
> > if($REQUEST_METHOD=="POST") or before?
>
> > I have tried a few things, but I am not sure what most people use, any
> > help would be appreciated.
>
> > Have a wonderful day
>
> > Diane
>
> Hi, you should check these:http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filter.php,http://phpro.org/tutorials/Filtering-Data-with-PHP.htmlandhttp://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/1113.
>
> -Lurius

So much restriction as old thing now.
For address king of thing just check those invalid char that can harm
your system.

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